The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-04-09
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THE COINER.
BY GERALD GRIFFIN.
Author of 1.-THE Collegians." etc.
Author of :. The Collegians." etc.

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CHAPTER XII.-(Continued.)
sit is a very nice letter, my dear,
said Mrs. Byrne. "but it does not con
tain all that we want to know. l be
lieye we always gave him credl
for feeling-but why does he not men
ton anything of the farm all TIL
while?''
..The reason appears to be, mother
that he has mistaken our motives al
together. Surely neither you nor l, no.
ANYBODY else, ever could have intended
to make that unfortunate fit OF passion
a cause for utter Punishment, as he calls
it. My poor dead father was not so IN
veterate. He even attributed great
norton of the blame on that morning
to himself"
"Ah, my dear, your poor father was
great deal too forgiving. Heaven for
give me for saying SOL mean for hi
own worldly interest; but l thanH
Heaven he was so, for if otherwise he
could not have hoped for the reward
that, trust, he is now enjoying"
ssNeither ought Robert to suppose
that he has had all the suffering to him
SELF" said Lilly, while she strove tc
keep herself from crying.
"You are right, my love- replied
Mrs. Byrne, turning emphatically TO-
wards her, "and that is very selfish OF
him, to say so, certainly"
Lilly meant only the internal suffer
ing to both, consequent on their separa'
ton; but the matter of-fact old lady
took it for granted that so strong a
word would only be used with app]i-
cation to the physical calamities OF all
parties, and Lilly was too timid and
delicate to explain-so that the unde-
served censure was suffered to remain
upon poor Kumba's shoulders.
These are the mistakes that set the
world by the ears. .
After some further conversation, it
was agreed that Mrs. Byrne should an
swer Roberts letter, or petition, as
James called it-by undeceiving him
with respect to the cause OF his exile
LAYING down the condition of his recall
which was to be such an improvement
in the circumstances of his property
and his conduct as would suffice to JUS
tlfy reasonable hope of his persever-
ance; and, finally, friendly exhorta'
ton to him, that he would make an ex-
ertion to restore to all as much as yet
remained on earth of the peace which
they had lost.
ssMother!' said Miss Byrne, as she
was about to leave the r0om-''you will
tell him 1 have not forgotten him.
And having with difficulty restrained
herself while she uttered the sentence,
she hurried away to relieve her heart in
the solitude of her own apartment.
By another of those contre-temps
which, however slight in themselves
yet involve so deep and very often trag'
ical consequences III the history OF the
human heart, it unfortunately hap
pened. that Mrs. Byrne (who, as my
readers may before now have conjec'
tured, was not one of those per
sons who can think of one thing and
attend to another at the same
tjme) was, at the very moment when
Lilly spoke, absorbed in the considera-
ton whether she would address the let
ter. NV Dear Sir" or ''My Dear Rob
ert.n and never heard, and, consequent
", never gave Lilly's remembrance
The letter wanted it too-(which was
worse and worse)-for the precise, good
natured lady took so much pains to
communicate every thing in so very
proper terms, in SO neat a hand. and
with SO many almost invisible erasures
nicely polished over with the finger
nail ESQ that the ink should not sink)-
and other pretty precautions, that poor
Kumba, when he got it, felt as if he
had walked unawares under water
fall.
He might, perhaps, have yet received
enough of encouragement to stimulate
him to some exertion, if he had known
how often Lilly wept upon her mothers
neck in the course of that and the fol-
lowing day. But there was nothing to
alleviate the GOODNESS of the letter which
indeed would have Deen perceptible to a
person composed of much less combus-
tible and enthusiastic materials than
himself. The effect which it did pro-
duce on him we have already seen. and
the accounts which reached the inmates
of Drumscanlon of his excuses, con-
tributed more effectually than all she
had before endured, to shatter the fec
BILE remains of Lilly's constitution, rem
der her more assiduous in all her
duties, more silent, more resigned,
more woe-worn, more gentle and timid,
more smiling, more cheerful and bro
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